BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump launched a sharp public attack on Germany on Wednesday for supporting a Baltic Sea gas pipeline deal with Russia, saying Berlin had become “a captive to Russia” and he criticized it for failing to raise defense spending more.

“When Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia,” Trump said to Stoltenberg. “We’re supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
“We’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting all of these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they’re paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump launched a sharp public attack on Germany on Wednesday for supporting a Baltic Sea gas pipeline deal with Russia, saying Berlin had become “a captive to Russia” and he criticized it for failing to raise defense spending more.

“When Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia,” Trump said to Stoltenberg. “We’re supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
“We’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting all of these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they’re paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.

It is not entirely untrue, Germany has positioned itself to be ever more dependent on Russia while expecting us to protect it from the Russian threat it claims exists and using protectionism and NATO to plunder our economy.

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It is not entirely untrue, Germany has positioned itself to be ever more dependent on Russia while expecting us to protect it from the Russian threat it claims exists and using protectionism and NATO to plunder our economy.

When you phrase it like this, starts to sound logical.

By same token, seems like Germany is also finding logic flaws in Trump/Ivanka's Syria policy. Wonder if this played any role in today's public lashing at Germany.

He's poking through their hypocrisy, on the eve of his summit in Helsinki.

“Force the normies into taking sides. At the moment they are just like "meh, I am minding my own business" retreating culturally into their private bubbles and "safe-spaces" since they don't understand what is going on. When the actual "us vs them" starts, they will be forced to fight or they'll die.” - Anonymous Poster

Trump being Trump. That's all. He says all sorts of things. And later says the exact opposite.

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